It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.

War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944 (ed. Berkley, 1981) - ISBN: 9780425050842